The fist week of July saw very hot temperatures across many desert areas. The high temperature in Phoenix on the 4th was 116 degrees.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS PSR wrote it up.
The fist week of July saw very hot temperatures across many desert areas. The high temperature in Phoenix on the 4th was 116 degrees. The remainder of the month was also hot, with an average monthly temperature of 95.8 degrees in Phoenix...which was the 7th warmest on record. State and local health officials reminded residents about the importance of taking precautions against the heat.
1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Maricopa County officials reported 32 confirmed deaths as either heat related or heat caused. Twenty four were male and 8 were female.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, July 2007
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 40791.